Product Bulletin No. EOL1094
Cisco Systems® announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco® Catalyst® 2950G and Catalyst 2950T Series Switches. The last day to order the affected products is December 31, 2006. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until December 30, 2011.
Table 1 lists the product numbers covered by this announcement.
Please note that several products in the Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series are not affected by this announcement.
Table 1. Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
Table 2 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series switches.
Table 2. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for Select Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches
PRODUCT MIGRATION OPTIONS
The recommended replacements for the affected Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series are the Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series Switches and the Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches. However, higher port-density deployments may be better suited to Cisco StackWise™ technology available only in the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series. Table 3 lists the part numbers affected by this end-of-sale announcement and identifies the recommended replacement product(s). Table 4 provides a comparison between these product lines.
The Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series is a new family of fixed-configuration standalone devices that provide desktop Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for entry-level enterprise, midmarket, and branch-office networks. All Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series switches support the same software image, which offers integrated security, including Network Admission Control (NAC), advanced QoS, high resiliency, and intelligent services for the network edge.
The Cisco Catalyst 3750 and 3560 Series take this further with increased scalability, functionality, and security options. Both series support IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) and Cisco prestandard PoE functionality, advanced routing capability, enhanced security, and IPv6 in Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet configurations. By combining both high-density Gigabit Ethernet and PoE, customers gain maximum productivity and investment protection by enabling the deployment of new applications such as IP telephony, wireless access, video surveillance, building management systems, and remote video kiosks. Additionally, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 and 3560 series support features such as Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard, and DHCP Snooping in the Cisco IOS
® Software IP Base image. These software features mitigate many of the increasingly common internal security threats seen in LANs and defend against a variety of man-in-the-middle and spoofing attacks.
Unique to the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series is Cisco StackWise, a revolutionary stacking architecture that brings high levels of resiliency, automation, and performance to stackable switches. With Cisco StackWise technology, customers can create a single, 32-Gbps switching unit with up to nine Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switches. A working stack is self-managing and self-configuring. When switches are added or removed, the master switch automatically loads the Cisco IOS Software release running on the stack to the new switch, loads the global configuration parameters, and updates all routing tables to reflect the changes.
For more information about the replacement products, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/index.html.
Table 3. End-of-Sale Product Numbers and Recommended Replacement Products
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Note: Higher port-density deployments might be better suited for Cisco StackWise technology in the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series.
Table 4. Product Comparisons
Customers can use the Cisco Technology Migration Plan (TMP) to trade in products and receive credit toward the purchase of new Cisco equipment. For more information about the Cisco TMP, go to
http://www.cisco.com/go/tradein. The Cisco TMP application requires all users to have a Cisco.com user ID.
Q&A
Q. Which Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series switches are not affected by this end-of-sale announcement?
A. The following products are not affected by this end-of-sale announcement:
• WS-C2950-12
• WS-C2950-24
• WS-C2950C-24
• WS-C2950G-24-EI-DC
• WS-C2950SX-24
• WS-C2950SX-48-SI
Q. How is the Cisco GigaStack stacking GBIC affected by this announcement?
A. The Cisco GigaStack stacking GBIC is not affected by this end-of-sale announcement.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
For more information about the Cisco Catalyst Family of switches, visit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/index.html or contact your local account representative.
For more information about the Cisco end-of-life policy, go to
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_end_of_life.html.
To subscribe to receive end-of-life/end-of-sale information, go to
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/FieldNoticeTool/field-notice.
